Microsoft won’t explain why Bing blocked 1.5 million Neocities websites.
Honestly someone should spin up a small web index. You can isolate yourself to a nice corner of the Internet and ignore the rest of the toxic mess.
Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites
Submitted 7 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
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Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 1 hour ago
Solumbran@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Who uses bing?
FancyGreg@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
DuckDuckGo users?
grandel@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
AFAIK there are only like 4 search engines in the world:
- Bing
- Yahoo
- Yandex
Virtually every search site uses one or a combination of these.
Yosmonkol@piefed.social 16 minutes ago
Yahoo uses the bing index, and aside from Google, Bing, and Yandex the only other larger english general search engine with its own index is Mojeek. Seirdy’s blog has more info on this along with reviews of more niche engines, and there is also the search engine map if you want something more visual.
canihasaccount@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Kagi has its own search engine and internal web indexing:
grue@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
There are no Chinese search engines?
rozodru@piefed.world 3 hours ago
pretty much. DDG for example uses a bing-yahoo “alliance thing” (can’t remember what it’s officially called but Microsoft and Yahoo have a sort of partnership in this regard).
Your options for actual first party search options are literally pretty much the ones you listed. Yandex is russian so not trusting those guys anymore than I trust Google or Microsoft so that just leaves Yahoo which is…yeah.
Honestly people are just better off using something like SearX or 4Get. they’re all the same except with those two you’re not going to get the AI slop or ads.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Pretty much every other search engine uses as it as their only or supplemental source as do all metasearch engines.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 7 minutes ago
’cause YaCy